...Learning Experience Myra Midd PSY/103 July 22, 2010 Dr. Kristi Hendrix Learning Experience Psychologist define learning as “a relatively permanent change in behavior or mental process because of practice or experience” (Carpenter and Huffman, 2010, Ch. 5) In other words Learning is characterized as the method of developing fresh accomplishment, behavior, knowledge, use or taste. Learning is an alteration evolved as an outcome of experience. This paper analyses a personal learning experience in relation with several prospects of the learning theory. Identify what you learned from the experience or experiences. * When I was a little girl I did not like sleeping alone in my room so my mother allowed me to sleep with her until I fell asleep. Once I was asleep she would carry me to my bed and I continued to sleep with no interruptions. One night, my step dad had come home drunk, I heard him go to my mother’s side. As I was opening my eyes, I saw my step dad strike my mother in the face. I started screaming at him to leave her alone. My brother came out of his room and began to threaten him to leave her alone. He turned to him and began to charge after him but my brother ran for safety in the bathroom. I just sat on my mother’s bed crying. My mom began to tell him to pack his bags and leave but that’s when my step dad began to cry and ask for forgiveness. My mom tried to console me from the living room, stating that everything was okay, but I knew that everything...
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...Learning Experience Paper Learning experience Learning experience discussed in this paper will focus on how someone can learn how not become addicted to drugs. The discussion will also identify what could be learned from the time an individual started using drugs to the time they were no longer a drug user. There will be a discussion of the description of how someone’s learning could have occurred through classical conditioning, identify the unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response. The operant conditioning, a description of the behavior, the consequences, and reinforcements will also explain. The discussion will address how the learning could have occurred cognitive social learning. Identifying the Learning Experience Let’s say a person has been a casual drug user, his lifestyle has been very carefree. Through his carefree lifestyle he is introduced to a new method of using drugs. The instant the drug is introduced becomes addicted. He experiences an overwhelming desire to have more to obtain the same sensation. He experiences a loss of control over his life. This loss of control is heightened when the drug cannot be obtained when his body desires it. The drug and its use becomes a part of his life much the same as taking a breath. Classical conditioning, Unconditioned Stimulus and Response, Conditioned Stimulus and Response Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes a...
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...Learning Experience Paper Nixon Merassaint PSY/103 December 1, 2014 Tricia Ferre There is really no right or wrong answer when it comes describing how or why particular foods or smells moves someone emotionally. The emotion occurs for one reason or another. The ethnic background of an individual can play a part in the experience or emotion. For example being a Haitian the smell of white rice, beans and turkey being cooked brings a since of being back in Haiti among family and friends. Another smell that brings a sense of emotion is when coffee is being brewed regardless of what time of the day, it makes you want to drink it. The smell makes an individual feel alive and well. These types of foods bring comfort and remembrance of family such as grandparents who have past. In a Haitian household the foods and smells are what brings families and friends together and can make an individual stop and remember their childhood. It may not be truly understood how or why foods or smells bring the emotion that it brings all that can really be determined is that it does and in some cases it brings about a peace. These are just a few examples of how particular foods and smells can bring emotion to an individual. In this experience the learning theories where influential and played an important role in expressing the thought and feeling of the individual are behaviorism, cognitive, humanistic and social. Emotions are caused by external stimuli such as the sight and smell of food. The...
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...Learning Experience Paper Christopher Byer PSY/103 9/20/2015 Classical Conditioning There are two main explanations of how organisms learn. The first explanation is known as classical conditioning. The second explanation is known as operant conditioning. These two types of learning are exhibited in our everyday lives through our home, school, and school. Classical conditioning was discovered by Iran Petrovich Pavlov. He was originally a physiologist whose main focus was the digestive system (Anderman, 2009). His discovery was made during a study on the salivation of dogs when given food. Pavlov observed that the dogs began salivating at the sound of the scientist’s footsteps and at their appearance into the room (Anderman, 2009). This led Pavlov to study the phenomenon further. The experiments that Pavlov was originally observing were based on the set of unconditioned stimulus and its unconditioned response. What is meant by conditioned is that the response is automatic and based on instinct. To compliment this name the stimulus is known as the unconditioned stimulus (Anderman, 2009). With Pavlov's new observations a new set of stimulus and response was found. This new set is known as the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response. What is meant by conditioned response here is that the response was learned. The stimulus begins as neutral and causes no conditioned response. However, if the neutral stimulus can be associated with another stimulus, then it...
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...Learning Experience Paper Anthony Boss PSY/103 July 20, 2016 Kathy Gromoll Learning Experience Paper People learn things in many different ways. Some people learn easy and some people learn in hard ways. The thing is that anyone can learn something. I will share an experience that I learned while I was growing up. My Learning Experience I was young when my father taught me to hunt. I really liked hunting because you had to be quite and still to see something to shoot. My father taught me by classical conditioning. I learned to hunt by doing it over and over. Hunting is a skill that has to be learned by making mistakes and learning how to do it better when you make a mistake. I learned by conditioning myself to do the same thing over and over to get a kill. Classical Conditioning Classical Conditioning is a process by which we learn to associate stimuli and, consequently, to anticipate events. This type of learning is the most common type of learning for some people and dogs. The way you learn this way is being able to associate something like a click with good behavior in dogs. The dog does something good then you click a button and then the dog associates the good behavior with the button click. Some people learn this way also. (Spielman, Dumpter, Jenkins, Lacombe, & Lovett, 2014). Operant Conditioning Operant Conditioning is when a person learns to associate a behavior and its consequence. This type of learning can consist of a reward/punishment...
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...Learning Experience Paper Tiffany N. Moore Psy/103 February 22, 2016 Joseph Foster Learning Experience Paper How can anyone be afraid of an insect that is smaller than them? My fear of spiders started when I was seven years old. Every year during summer break I would go out to the country to visit my godparents on their farm. I was always told not to play outdoors in my bare feet because of the insects, snakes, and small rodents. Being an adventurous child I did the total opposite of what I was being told. While playing in the barn one summer day I decided to take my shoes off, which led to me getting bit by a spider, becoming terribly ill, and having to spend several days in the hospital. Every day since that incident occurred I have had a deadly fear of spiders. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder where you have an excessive fear of a certain object or situation, says Raphael Rose, PhD, associate director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Center and associate clinical professor at the University of California-Los Angeles' Department of Psychology and Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences. An estimated 19.2 million American adults’ deal with specific phobias, the National Institute of Mental Health reports. And specific phobias are twice as common in women as in men, NIMH says. Phobias usually develop during childhood or, if not then, by early adulthood, Rose says. Common specific phobias, according to NIMH, include closed-in spaces, heights, highway driving...
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...Professional Learning Experience Proposal Proposed Criteria to Conduct a Research Study on Backfill Assisted Voiding Professional Socialization December 2, 2008 Title and Description a. Research Study for Backfill Assisted Voiding b. Backfill assisted voiding is a procedure that is performed in the post anesthesia care unit. An indwelling catheter is placed preoperatively in selected patients in order for the procedure to take place. The “bladder was filled retrograde with room temperature sterile normal saline”. (Foster, RT Sr., Borawski, KM, pg. 627). Retrograde filling was stopped when the woman had a strong urge to void. The catheter was removed and the patient voided. c. A cause for concern was initiated by the surgical outpatient unit because a MD is currently ordering the procedure on post-operative vaginal surgery patients with no standard practice. There is concern from members of the Nurse Practice Committee and Infection Control due to lack of evidence to support it and data to show the patient does not have negative consequences as a result of this procedure. Professional Outcome and Related Competency a. The outcome of this proposal is to articulate the contributions of professional nursing to health care via research by defining the boundaries of nursing while gathering, organizing, planning, problem solving and reviewing in order to format an acceptable policy and procedure for standards...
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...When learning to drive there are three major steps; practicing, studying and testing. When practicing most just get behind the wheel and go, rather it be in a parking lot or on the street. Studying is the boring part, normally consisting of allot of reading and or watching. Finally there is the testing phase where he or she would prove their knowledge of what he or she has practiced and studied. This cycle may not go in this order for everyone but the process continues over and over throughout your driving years. When a male or female, child or adult, decides he or she wants to learn to drive or learn a new aspect of driving, then he or she tends to practice it in some way, shape, or form. When a child wants to learn to drive they typically ask their parents or care giver to get on their lap and steer the car while the adult controls the throttle and brake. Later in the child’s life he or she may be allowed to take over all controls fully and drive around in a parking lot, private roads or in some cases public roads. Video games the day and age are so realistic to the point where a person could practice driving while in the comfort of their own home and breaking no laws by letting an unlicensed driver behind the wheel of a car. When I was young and aspiring to drive, my reward was being able to drive my mom around for doing well in school and completing my chores. If I messed up my driving privileges were taken away from me. Since I was a pretty good child I learned to drive...
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...The three storyboard sessions have constituted a gradual learning progress for me. Thus, I find it difficult to write three separate logs of 500 words. Rather, I prefer to present my learning experiences in a long essay in which I reflect upon three aspects, namely: teamwork, video-editing tool and delivery format. Teamwork. The first thing I recognized about these storyboard sessions is that they were designed as a sequence of discussion phases which set a strong foundation for efficient teamwork. The structure worked peculiarly well with my first and third team. Both times, we began with each member summarizing the key takeaways from their individual papers. Then, we brainstormed how to connect all categorize and cluster our ideas. Next,...
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...Learning Experience Lekisha S. Ashby PSY/103 March 7, 2015 Elizabeth Riegner Learning Experience Introduction Everything in life we go through has a learning factor or experience we go through. We may not see thing when we’re going through them, but if we sit back after it’s all said and done we can see what the problems were and learn from the mistake or experience we encountered. My learning experience maybe very different from anything you have gone through. I will explain what it’s like to go through a “Bad Break-Up” and what can be learned from it. In The Beginning Like any new relationship it starts off great! You’re getting to know one another and the likes and dislikes of the person you see spending the rest of your life with, well for me that’s how it was. To start I met the love of my life in 2004, and we clicked instantly. The first three years were great. We talked about marriage and stated living together. Soon after in 2006 on Valentine’s Day I found out I was pregnant. Everyone was so happy. October 12, 2006 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. After she came home and things started to get back to normal, thats when the relationship changed. He told me I didn’t spend time with him anymore. It was like he was jealous of our baby. To make a long story short I found out he started cheating on me. We broke up I took him back off and on for years. He had other girlfriends but our connection was still there. We have been going through the...
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...Learning Experience Paper Brandie Logsdon PSY/103 January 26, 2015 Russell Sprinkle Phobia is where a person is afraid of certain things or situations such as being or speaking in public, snakes, spiders, dogs, clowns, or open spaces. Acrophobia is an informal learning experience of being afraid of heights. This type of phobia belongs to a specific classification of phobias known as space and motion discomfort. Acrophobia can be dangerous, as victims can suffer an anxiety attack in a high place and become too anxious to get down cautiously. I suffer from a severe degree of acrophobia that prevents me from renting an apartment on any floor other than the ground floor. When I did live on the second floor of an apartment complex, I had to keep my window blinds closed causing my claustrophobia to kick in, which in turn, caused a severe anxiety attack. People with acrophobia may also experience other phobias or types of anxiety. I suffer from several phobias like being in public, spiders, closed spaces, and heights but was also diagnosed with bipolar II, PTSD, and anxiety disorder. Acrophobia can have a negative effect on a person’s life by restricting their job possibilities or where to go for vacation and one’s regular day-to-day situations such as changing a light bulb in a ceiling fan or hanging new window curtains. One might ask, how could someone become afraid of heights? Some psychologists debate the cause of phobias claiming that they are instigated by early traumatic...
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...Learning Experience Paper Learning Experience Paper Introduction Psychology has become interesting to me due to my current class of Intro to Psychology. In this paper, I will be discussing my learning experiences with the perspective of using classical and operant conditioning. I will also discussing how using cognitive-social learning theory could have occurred. Learning a fear We all learn to be afraid of something or things in our lives. These fears can be learned at a young age and throughout our lives. However, these fears can also be unlearned over time. I learned at a young age to fear or dislike eating any kind of fish or food that was able to “swim”, sea foods. At the age of seven, my sister and I were placed in a foster home. This foster home had specific rules that I did not understand back then but now as an adult with children I do, to an extent. According to (Carpenter, 2013), Classical conditioning is learning through involuntarily paired associations. This occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes paired with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response. In regards to classical conditioning, my fear of eating fish or sea foods can be traced back to when I was in a foster home at age seven. One night for dinner, my foster mom made a fish dinner. Growing up I was always taught to eat all of my food on my plate that was just what we did. However, this particular night I could not do this. I was always one to try new things...
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...LEARNING EXPERIENCE “Great experience comes from great execution.” It has been a tough semester, I would say. It is not yet finished but definitely, this is one of the few semesters that I’ve had that I would really look into the future. As to what I have quoted above, “great experience comes from great execution”, this is, I’d say, what I have really learned in this subject. Giving your best in order for you and the group to achieve a really memorable experience. Giving your full efforts, love and care to what you are doing in order for you to not regret anything in the future. It is challenging yourselves to be better ones to be able to inspire and let others learn from what you have learned and achieved. The teamwork among us, BSHM 3-1D, had been challenged when we had our first event, the Food and Beverage Seminar among the BSHM First Year Students. We’ve gotten a long and challenging way before we were able to execute such successful event. Humbly speaking, it was truly one of the best shots that the block has exerted in order to make a better one. Some of the things that I could say I have learned in this subject, Conventions and Events Management, is being able to persevere on things that come or happen inevitably. Each and everyone’s patience was really tested during the preparation of the event, with the practice sessions, updates per committees, cooperation of each, finalization on where and when to hold the event, final speakers to talk on the seminar, these...
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...My service learning project was at a seventy six year old woman’s home, throughout four weeks with one visit a week at an hour and a half per visit. I had originally discussed with R.T. about what she would like to have her occupational outcome to be (long term goal), she told me that she would like to visit family more but was worried about leaving home, afraid something would happen when she was away. Some of my strengths and skill/talents that I felt I exhibited during the visits were good verbal/non-verbal communication, asked open ended and non-open ended questions, teach back method, research and therapeutic use of self. Therapeutic use of self (TUS) as defined by AOTA allows occupational therapy practitioners to develop and manage their therapeutic relationship with clients by using narrative and clinical reasoning; empathy; and a client-centered, collaborative approach to service delivery. One of the limitations I had with my client R.T. was that I couldn’t travel with...
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...Classical Conditioning Evolutionary Perspective: The evolutionary perspective is the applied principles of evolution that help explain the psychological process and phenomena. An English man by the name of Charles Darwin was the first to discuss this theory in his book The Origin of Species. The process of Evolution can be described by simply stating that individual members of species fight for survival. Those with stronger characteristics; being able to adapt to surroundings, fend for themselves and do whatever it takes to survive and more likely to continue to do so and carry on these traits to their offspring. Those who do not hold these similar characteristics and hold weaker ones are less likely to survive and the few offspring they will have, will not be able to adapt such as their parents and ancestors were not able to either. Humanistic Perspective: Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are the fathers of Humanistic Perspective. Humanistic Perspective is ones own motivation to grow. This perspective is all about ones own determination to reach their goals, their interactions and interpersonal-relationships with those around them, and the importance of one having choice and self direction. Cognitive Perspective: The Cognitive Perspective is the based on the mental process and how humans process information. In the 1960’s there was a “Cognitive Revolution” due to the development of the very first computers. The Cognitive process is how the brain and mind process and remember...
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